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Vikram Ramesh Babu

Summary

Data, Software & AI Engineer with 13+ years of experience architecting and shipping large-scale data platforms, distributed software systems, and AI-powered solutions. Currently a senior individual contributor at Amazon building self-service data infrastructure and developer tooling. Equally comfortable at the data layer, backend, and frontend — with a growing focus on applied AI engineering.

Experience

Senior Data Engineer

·Amazon·Seattle, WA
  • Designed and built a full-stack, event-driven self-service data operations platform (React/Cloudscape frontend, Python serverless backend, Step Functions orchestration, DynamoDB config store) that reduced data operations turnaround by 99% — from 2–3 days to under 15 minutes.
  • Designed and built a serverless API gateway, Python SDK/CLI, and AWS CDK stack bridging REST clients to internal services with OAuth2 auth, multi-region routing across 3 global stacks, circuit breakers, and canary deployments — reducing cohort pipeline provisioning from 8 hours/week to seconds and enabling 12× scale (40 → 500+ cohorts).

Distributed Systems, Full-Stack Engineering, Serverless Architecture, Data Integration & ETL, AI Engineering (RAG, Agents), IaC, CI/CD

Dec 2023 – Present

Data Engineer

·Amazon·Toronto, Canada
  • Architected and maintained the team's core analytical data platform on Amazon Redshift, serving as the foundation for all analytics and reporting for the 3P Seller business.
  • Solely designed and launched a self-managed Tableau Server on AWS (EC2, EBS, VPC, ELB, Route53, SES) with enterprise SSO, DNS, and network security integration.
  • Built scalable ETL and automation pipelines to ingest, model, and persist data from multiple upstream sources; produced standardized metrics and data models distributed via Amazon's internal data exchange platform.

Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, ETL Orchestration, BI & Visualization, AWS Infrastructure, Data Governance

Jun 2022 – Nov 2023

Data Engineer

·Infosys Limited·Toronto, Canada
  • Led a large-scale cloud migration for a global food and beverage company, building data models and ELT pipelines to forecast product shipment logistics and consumption metrics for the Sales Operations supply chain planning team.

Data Modeling, ELT, Reporting & BI

Feb 2020 – Apr 2022

Senior Associate Consultant

·Infosys Limited·Frankfurt, Germany
  • Built an enterprise-wide Data Lake on the cloud for Business and IT Services. Conducted data-to-value hackathons and internal training to drive platform adoption across the organization.

IT & Big Data Consulting, Data Visualization, ETL & Data Management, Agile

Nov 2017 – Jan 2020

Senior Associate Consultant

·Infosys Limited·Bangalore, India
  • Built multiple B2C systems for customer engagement across customer-facing and sales-force channels. Led requirement gathering, user story elaboration, software testing, and ETL data management.

Requirements Engineering, Software Testing, ETL & Data Management

Apr 2015 – Oct 2017

Software Engineer

·HCL Technologies·Chennai, India
  • Developed and maintained customer support systems and data warehouses for a US pharmaceutical company across the full SDLC.

Application Development, ETL, IT Service Management

Dec 2010 – Aug 2013

Education

Master of Business AdministrationIT & Operations

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras · Chennai, India

Jul 2013 – Mar 2015

Bachelor of EngineeringElectrical & Electronics

Anna University · Chennai, India

Aug 2006 – Apr 2010

Certifications

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft · AZ-900

Sep 2020

Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft · AI-900

Aug 2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Oct 2019

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Scrum Alliance

Nov 2016

Advanced Green Belt Six Sigma

IIT Madras

Jan 2015